Information Architecture
Audience-Based Navigation: 5 Reasons to Avoid It
The pitfalls of an audience based navigation and a few solutions to avoid scaring off the users.
User Interface
How to write a great error message
Some great examples of big brands doing it badly and some great advice on how to keep the user happy.
Apple TV Human Interface Guidelines
Want to design for the Apple TV? Then you should look at this guide from the makers themselves
Strategy
Design the Beginning
This article clearly discusses the importance of considering the user at the first-eyes stage and how you convince them to stay long enough to try out your product/service/app.
How to produce better designs for complex apps
A good guide for breaking down complex projects into bite-sized and manageable tasks.
Product / service design
Keeping work weird
I love this article! The benefits of thinking outside the box, also backed up with plenty of psychology sound-bites.
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Devices
How It Ticks: Building the Airbnb Apple Watch App
A case study of the Airbnb Apple watch app, clearly highlights the need for understanding that the watch is an additional device and not a replacement of the phone!
Careers
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my career
An experienced designer from Adobe tells us his journey, and mistake, as well as his answer to the age-old question 'should a designer learn to code?'